Thousands of foreign travellers visit the geysers, salt flats, oases and volcanoes of north Chile's Atacama Desert. It is located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of the country.

The VLT is a powerful astronomical observatory that captures high-resolution images and spectra of celestial objects, ...

A green energy plant expected to be built in Chile's Atacama Desert could increase night-time sky brightness ... Very Large ...

The effects of a proposed green-energy facility in Chile could be devastating for some of the most powerful instruments ...

The observatory, known as the TAO, is located on the summit of the 5,640-meter high Mount Chajnantor in the barren Atacama Desert, the driest region on Earth. About 200 officials from the ...

Astronomers discovered oxygen in the most distant known galaxy. This changes what we thought about how fast galaxies formed.

Scientists capture baby universe data from Atacama telescopes final observations Final data reveal significant insights from ...

An international research team studied the solar PV impact of emissions from a coal-fired power plant in the Atacama Desert, finding that after five months of exposure, the deposited dust on ...